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Am I having a senior moment or what?
What?
Seriously, it looks like either is correct. The word was originally not with an f but with a gh, cognate with German Zwerg. The brick and mortar OED doesn't give a citation in f till the 15th century, so we're out of the OE voiced-between-vowels rule. The OED also gives plurals both dwarfs and dwarves; the former from 1770, 1834 and 1894 and the latter from 1818.
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stales 01/13/2002 1:42 PM ![]()
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TEd Remington 01/18/2002 9:35 PM ![]()
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Bingley 01/21/2002 3:21 AM
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